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QOTD: Do You Actually Care About Chinese Imports?

The Truth About Cars

This was interesting because the article dealt exclusively with updates to the vehicle, which is technically still a product of North America. But Ford Motor Co. Ford has struggled by comparison. since 2016. can make good business sense, however, for a company such as Ford. “In billion CAN ($1.34

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EV charging is changing, Part 1: How automakers’ disappointment in Electrify America drove them into Tesla’s arms

Charged EVs

The last year has seen more change in the EV charging landscape than at any time since the VW Group agreed in June 2016 to pay $2 billion to set up a nationwide fast charging network in the US to settle its Dieselgate scandal. Only Ford provided written responses to (a few of) our questions. Remember Dieselgate?”

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The Top 10 EV Battery Makers

Cars That Think

Ford plans to scale up 140 GW of capacity in North America by 2030 (and 240 GW globally), in partnership with South Korea's SK Innovation. Ford figures that's about six plants' worth of homegrown capacity, and 10 globally. Contemporary Amperex Technology and LG Energy Solution's staggering growth rates from 2016 to 2020 are.

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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

Clean Fleet Report

note: We’re republishing this article because it’s a good reminder of how technology timelines can slip and yet things are clearly moving forward. This article was written more than 10 years ago, when the forecasts were we would have personal and public robotaxis galore. This article may contain affililate links.

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Driving Dystopia: Pickup Sales Are Probably Going to Decline in the UK

The Truth About Cars

Digging into the concept resulted in a lot of angry and confused comments and a recent article from Autocar stipulating that commercial trucks doubling as normal transportation are about to become prohibitively expensive as most are poised for a “near-fivefold increase in personal tax bills" after July 1st, 2024. million by 2022.

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Tech: How do Hybrid & Plug-in Hybrid Batteries Recharge? Do I Need to Plug a Hybrid In?

Clean Fleet Report

A Primer on Hybrid Battery Care This article may contain affiliate links. note: Larry originally wrote this in 2016, but since Toyota is still advertising about its hybrid “that doesn’t need to be plugged in,” we thought it was worth updating and repeating.]

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New Kevlar-based nanocomposite serves as dendrite-suppressing Li-ion battery separator with high ionic conductivity

Green Car Congress

Mass production is expected to begin in the fourth quarter 2016. Kotov (2015) “A dendrite-suppressing composite ion conductor from aramid nanofibres” Nature Communications 6, Article number: 6152 doi: 10.1038/ncomms7152. Siu-On Tung, Szushen Ho, Ming Yang, Ruilin Zhang & Nicholas A. Batteries'

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